I groan. “Remind me why you’ve accompanied me again?” “Because when you get going, you sound like you’re reading from a thousand-year-old scrap of parchment, whereas I can talk to people in ways they can actually understand.” “I didn’t realize it was that hard to communicate with coingirls and bartenders.” “Work on that joke, old friend, and in a few years you’ll get some jest out of it.”
